Bordeaux for Mac OS X systems coming soon

[twickline]

Bordeaux 1.8 is now running on current Mac OS X Leopard systems.

We have been working hard over the past month to get Bordeaux running on Mac OS X and all that hard work is starting to pay off. We now have everything compiling and running but like always more testing needs to be done before it's ready for final release.

The installer, Bordeaux programs, built-in Wine programs, bordeaux-winetricks, and a couple small test applications have been tested. The good news is everything that's been tested works very well and everything thus far tested has been stable.

Starting with the Mac OS X release of Bordeaux we are going to start bundling our own version of Wine. While this is allot more work, it will allow us to include some much sought after features that have been missing from vanilla Wine builds. For example the (always in the work's) DIB engine will be one of these new features. And with bundling Wine we can also Bundle in some other needed tools such as cabextract and unzip to make the use of Bordeaux and Wine as user friendly as possible.

Full post http://bordeauxgroup.com/node/150

[Ross]

This post is borderline spam. The only reason I'm leaving it up is I'm curious about the product. If this user continues to post about this product and only this product, he/she will be banned and the posts will be removed.

[JamesJM]

This post is borderline spam. The only reason I'm leaving it up is I'm curious about the product. If this user continues to post about this product and only this product, he/she will be banned and the posts will be removed.

Yeah, it's obviously an 'ad'... but I was curious as well.  Let me know if you find out anything more. - JamesJM

[twickline]

Yea, its somewhat a ad, sorry we are just trying to get the word out.... I ask that you dont ban me tho, as I have no plans of spamming again. if we have a update, release is it okay if I post about it in this thread?

Cheers,

Tom

[vangogh62]

Ahhh, since you posted back twick, I'm letting it go too - but the African IP bothers me a bit...

[twickline]

African IP ? I live in North Carolina USA, Steven lives in South Carolina...

At any rate, I uploaded Alpha 1 this morning 66.11MB

http://bordeauxgroup.com/press-release/bordeaux-mac-alpha

Cheers,

Tom

IP Removed - SAM

[vangogh62]

sorry dude - my bad. one number off and look what happens.

I wish you hadn't broadcasted your IP though. I woulda never gave up your number in public.

[twickline]

Bordeaux Beta 1 released

see : http://bordeauxgroup.com/press-release/bordeaux-beta1

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    * Intel Apple Mac (Mac Pro, Mac Mini, iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro and Macbook Air)
    * Mac OS X Leopard OS-X 10.5.7 or later is required to install this package.
    * Updated X11.app from http://xquartz.macosforge.org (At least version 2.3.3.2)

Supported Software

    * Microsoft Office 2007 and Office2003 Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpnt) Microsoft Project 2003, Visio 2003, and Internet Explorer 6.0 are supported.

Known issues with this release

    * libgphoto2 and libsane support has not been compiled in to this release. This means that scanner access most likely will not work. We plan to fix this in the beta build.
    * libpng and libjpg support has not been compiled in to this release. This will be corrected in the next beta. Please let us know if you have problems viewing any images in Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint.
    * Icon creation for Application Bundles are not supported at this time. This will be corrected in the next Beta release
    * The Install Windows Applications and Bordeaux Cellar Manager Application bundle will create two icons on the doc when these applications are running. This will be corrected in the final build
    * Many other bugs will be present. Please be patient while we work to correct these issues.

Getting Started

When you install this release of Bordeaux for OS X a directory on your HardDrive will be created called Bordeaux Applications. In this folder, you will have tools which allow you to install and manage Windows Applications under OS X. Simply select Install Windows Applications to get started. At this time while you are presented with a list of many Windows applications that can be installed, only Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Office 2007 are supported. Future beta releases will include more applications as support is added.

Once your applications is installed a new directory will be created called "Windows Applications" in the root of your Hard Disk. From there you will have a standard application bundle you can use to launch your program. Support for native icons will be added in the next beta.

Screenshots



Final version will support IE7 and Steam, OneNote also runs pretty well here as well, Allot of unsupported software will of course run as well..

Cheers,

Tom Wickline